Hi all, there's lots of events organised for May. Firstly:

- Our next SkillShare event is on May 7, with Rich Farmbrough doing a workshop on how to use AutoWikiBrowser: This is for more experienced editors so please tell those people if you know them! Sign up on Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-skillshare-using-autowikibrowser-tickets-60477470743. The Meta page is here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Skillshare/2.

This is the second SkillShare we are doing, and I really would like to engage people who are already experienced Wikipedia editors but haven't used AWB before to automate edits. If you want to know more about AWB I've written a blogpost here https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/04/autowikibrowser-find-out-how-to-automate-mass-edits-on-wikipedia/ .

- Our next Wikidata meetup https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Wikidata/02 is on May 2 in East London. When I created the page initially I put it as the 15th, so please be aware if you're coming that it's on May 2.

Other Wikimedia editathons, meetups and related events this month are:

- The Womein in Red meetup https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-58988220355 in Edinburgh on May 3 - Women in Scottish Archaeology editathon https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-scottish-archaeology-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-60123362596 in Edinburgh on May 9 - The Cambridge Meetup https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/41 on May 12 - Victorian blogging editathon https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victorian-blogging-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-59887399825 at Conway Hall in London on May 18 - Extraordinary women in Engineering editathon http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/events/general/extraordinary-women-in-engineering-a-wes-wikithon with WES in London on May 18 - A one day conference in Dunfirmline, Remembering Scotland's Accused Witches https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-scotlands-accused-witches-tickets-58574751659 on May 19 - Asking and answering questions with Open Data http://www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/events/2019/asking-and-answering-questions-with-open-data.html in Bristol on May 20 - A Women in Red editathon https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-58988221358 in Edinburgh on May 31

The middle of the year is certainly getting busy, and we hope to see you at some of these events!

All the best,

John Lubbock

Communications Coordinator

Wikimedia UK

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